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Old 05-06-2008, 05:51 AM Multiple dashes in domain name
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Some webmasters said it's looks spammy having dashes in domain, but i think it is a good for SEO because it helps search engines accurately discern the keywords from the domain name.
Is it okay to register a domain with multiple dashes?
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Old 05-06-2008, 06:55 AM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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If that is last choice to have a good domain, i preferred that way.
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Old 05-06-2008, 01:27 PM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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I think that itwould be good for the SEO, not for webmasters to remember. IMO
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Old 05-06-2008, 04:45 PM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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I think that the URL matters more to your users than anything else. Will they remember to type in a hyphen when visiting your site? Can you not get the unhyphenated version? If you could grab both, and market whichever one you prefer, that'd probably be the best way to go.
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Old 05-06-2008, 05:27 PM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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because it helps search engines accurately discern the keywords from the domain name.
That would make sense if search engines didn't have a spell check that knows when you forget to hit space.

Put alexanderthegreat into Google and look at the results you get. I think you'll change your mind about dashes in a domain name and what effect it could possibly have for SEO.
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Old 05-06-2008, 10:35 PM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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Hey Pow-wow,

Dashes do not help with search engine placement. Also wesbites with dashes are harder for people to remember.

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Old 05-07-2008, 01:13 AM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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i agree aswell, dashes are harder for people to remember and are more likely to leave them out. the hard thing is to find a generic name that is both is easily remembered and relates to your business name
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Old 05-07-2008, 10:18 AM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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I think you should avoid multiple dashes. It is hard to remember even one dash.
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Old 05-07-2008, 11:20 AM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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I have 8 websites and two of them have 4 hyphens in the domain name.
I'm ranking very high for competitive keywords in all the major search engines.

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Old 05-08-2008, 08:58 AM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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I try to avoid dashes as best as possible, people care a lot about the domain name and can easily forget multiple dashes in the domain name. Yes it can look a bit messy too but mainly it's a hastle to type in or remember.
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Old 05-08-2008, 02:50 PM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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I have 8 websites and two of them have 4 hyphens in the domain name.
I'm ranking very high for competitive keywords in all the major search engines.

Check out How to make a website in my signature below.

Would you mind PMing me those 4 website? From my experience and others ranking higher with hyphens is alot harder and almost impossible with competitive keywords. Perhaps im wrong though.

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Old 05-11-2008, 12:40 AM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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Would you mind PMing me those 4 website? From my experience and others ranking higher with hyphens is alot harder and almost impossible with competitive keywords. Perhaps im wrong though.

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Old 05-11-2008, 04:42 PM Re: Multiple dashes in domain name
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It seems like it might good for SEO, but as far as type in traffic the dashes kind of diminish any chance of that. I personally would rather have a .net with no dashes than a .com with them.
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